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Longstreet: The Confederate General Who Defied the South

Elizabeth Varon - Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

An authoritative biography of the controversial Confederate general, who later embraced Reconstruction and became an outcast in the South.. It was the most remarkable political about-face in American history. During the Civil War, General James Longstreet fought tenaciously for the Confederacy....
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Dr. Beare's Daughter: Growing Up Adopted, Adored, And Afraid A True Story

Janice Jones - Lou Jan Press
Format: Paperback

". . . brutally honest . . . a compelling work. GET IT"-Kirkus Reviews. "Moving story of an adopted daughter's search for her own voice."-Booklife. "Well-written and poignant . . . engaging. Feelings and experiences to which many adoptees can relate to."-Betsie...
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Twice as Hard: The Stories of Black Women Who Fought to Become Physicians, from the Civil War to the 21st Century

Jasmine Brown - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover

Black women physicians' stories have gone untold for far too long, leaving gaping holes in American medical history, in women's history, and in black history. It's time to set the record straight.No real account of black women physicians in the US exists, and what little mention...
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Winslow Homer: American Passage

William R. Cross - ?Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Format: Hardcover

The definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose -- yet whose own story has remained largely untold.In 1860, at the age of twenty-four, Winslow Homer (1836-1910)...
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The Matter of Black Lives: Writing from The New Yorker

Jelani Cobb - Ecco
Format: Hardcover

A collection of The New Yorker's groundbreaking writing on race in America - including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Hilton Als, Zadie Smith, and more - with a foreword by Jelani CobbThis anthology from the pages of the New Yorker provides a bold and complex...
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Abandoned Eastern Kansas: Skeletons of the Sunflower State

Regina Daniel - America Through Time
Format: Paperback


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D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II

Sarah Rose - Crown
Format: Hardcover

The dramatic, untold story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed Britain was locked in an existential...
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Play All Night!: Duane Allman and the Journey to Fillmore East

Bob Beatty - ?University Press of Florida; 1st edition
Format: Paperback

The origin story of a groundbreaking album  ?The 1971 Allman Brothers Band album At Fillmore East was a musical manifesto years in the making. In Play All Night!, Bob Beatty dives deep into the motivations and musical background of band founder Duane Allman to tell the story of what...
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Holding the Line: A Lifetime of Defending Democracy and American Values

RONNY JACKSON - Post Hill Press
Format: Hardcover

A behind-the-scenes political memoir written by a prominent White House physician.I would talk to the president before the chief of staff even saw the president in the morning. I walked into work, and I was already in the Oval Office talking to President Trump. It was rarely medical, to be honest...
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Leave No Man Behind: The Untold Story of the Rangers' Unrelenting Search for Marcus Luttrell, the Navy SEAL Lone Survivor in Afghanistan

Tony Brooks - Diversion Books
Format: Hardcover

On June 28th, 2005, a four-man Navy SEAL reconnaissance team under Operation Red Wings was ambushed in northeastern Afghanistan -- as depicted in the book and film Lone Survivor. A quick reaction force was dispatched. Turbine 33, carrying eight Navy SEALs and eight members of the 160th...
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